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Originally Posted by Handro
https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/s...-in-the-the-us
Found the article I read. Did you form your opinion based on anything or did you just assume LA must be significantly more diverse than places in Texas and IL?
"U.S. News calculated racial diversity for U.S. cities with a population of 300,000 or more within their legal boundaries. Population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2018 American Community Survey were used to determine the share each racial and ethnic group accounted for in the city’s population and how likely it would be for two people chosen at random to be from different racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic ethnicity can be of any race, according to federal standards, but this overlap among groups is captured in the analysis."
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No, I've read that article (and this one
https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/a...analysis-shows) and it's pretty bogus. It treats all Asians, Hispanics, Blacks, Whites as the same. By this metric, sure, maybe Chicago is as diverse as LA because it has a much larger black population than LA.
But, of course, all Asians are not the same. Just as all people with black skin aren't the same nationality, nor are people who identify as Hispanic, etc. LA has much greater representation of people from a wider range of places than Chicago does. It's a, if not THE, hub of immigration on the West Coast, so this is pretty intuitive. Simply put, the diversity found within each racial category is higher in LA than Chicago (or Houston), and it's not really even close.